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Is this the first hint of Skoda having a midlife crisis? This k electric coupe SUV with pretensions of being a hot hatch is perhaps the least Skoda y Skoda that Skoda has made Certainly the priciest ever unless you normally order your car bulletproofed
We rate the standard Enyaq highly it’s a great all round electric family car that does the ‘Skoda thing’ quite well even if it has fallen prey to that Volkswagen Group craze for ditching buttons left right and on the centre stack
FOR Proven underpinnings, strangely alluring in acid green
AGAINST Who’s actually been asking for this car?
But a coupe version? Let alone a vRS with two e motors and a saucy bodykit Just not sure what it’s for The AWD bhp vRS arrives in the UK first followed later by a tamer RWD single engined Coupe Skoda’s adamant that the Enyaq Coupe doesn’t suffer for the swooping new roofline It says space in the boot is only a squeak smaller with litres lost and rear headroom only slightly impacted thanks to a panoramic glass roof as standard As a clue to the lengths Skoda has gone to in order to say that the glass is thinner and the company had to junk the sunblind so it’s been specially treated to reflect heat
The vRS gets some one off treats like the Crystal Face up front with LEDs inside that illuminate the grille like a Blackpool Christmas display The ride’s dropped mm at the front and mm at the rear too for handling panache and there’s an extra splosh of top speed hold on to your hats this car can reach a speedy mph mph quicker than other Enyaqs
The vRS is certainly quick but mostly in that torquey way of all electric cars You’d think there’d be more of an impetus to engage the driver in new ways given that inherent electric perkiness but this tonne SUV just doesn’t quite manage it
Hustling the Enyaq asks too much of it the ride is fairly solid but the weight gets the suspension flustered over bad roads steering is firm but bland and the brakes are quite spongy too Dial it all back to something a little more befitting of an EV you’d like to get miles out of and the Enyaq has a calm ride and the regen is strong enough you can spend most of your journey using a single pedal It’s a sensible practical car underneath the lurid paint colours and disco grille
Ultimately we just don’t get the point of a coupefied Enyaq with a fast badge glued on If you want a fun vRS then go for the Octavia in gasp litre petrol guise but otherwise you just need to be sensible and go for the standard version